What Will Our Students Do When They Graduate?

In a former life, I taught media studies: film and television, mostly. Not long ago, one of my former students got in touch with...

Blogging 1.0

You’re searching for a recipe for homemade laundry detergent and you stumble across a vestige of the deep dark past. The personal blog. Written...

Blogging 2.0

Blogs go academic. Students post short assignments–often a “reading response.” The site may be limited to students-only or Yale-only. So there can be a...

“This Is Not Your Father’s Blog.”

What if we had something different? You’re walking down a New Haven Street, and they’re digging it up. It makes you wonder about the...

What Is Blogging 3.0?

Instead of doing personal writing,  Blogging 3.0 is more likely to be documentary and collaborative. It’s often a class project–that may last weeks, months,...

The Blog as a Course Hub

  The blog becomes the course web site–instead of something like Classes*v2 or a “Learning Management System.” The syllabus lives here. Instructors post assignments...

The Blog As Book

This site was made over  the course of a semester by the students of Professor Elihu Rubin’s ARCH 347b. Instead of representing a private...

A Virtual Exhibition Catalog of Russian Icons

  Graduate students spent several weeks collecting images from: the Yale Art Gallery, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hermitage Museum in Russia....

Yale NatureWalk: The Blog as a Map

EE&B 223L Evolution, Functional Traits, and the Tree of Life Yale NatureWalk ‘grew’ out a a class project. The project lasted over the entirety...

Interactive Crown Street: a Course Hub Visualized Geospatially

  ARCH 4219 01 (S14) URBAN RESEARCH & REPRESENTATION A professor in Yale’s School of Architecture was searching for a way to depict various elements...